NSW Premier Chris Minns has today awarded Casino High School student Izzy Miller a Premier\u2019s Award to honour her brave actions in preventing a bus crash last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In November, a bus with around 20 local students aboard began moving after the bus driver had stepped out from the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Izzy quickly realised the danger as the bus moved toward a petrol station, with CCTV showing customers and staff were in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Izzy jumped into the empty driver\u2019s seat and took control of the wheel. She located the brake pedal and steered the bus to safety, avoiding petrol bowsers, pedestrians and other vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Izzy, who was in year nine at the time, prevented what could have been a serious accident, with all passengers escaping unharmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Premier Chris Minns presented Izzy with a Premier\u2019s Award trophy at a school assembly to recognise her heroic act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Premier\u2019s Award gives recognition to people or groups in NSW who have contributed to the state, either through their significant act, contribution, or achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the first Premier\u2019s Award awarded by Premier Minns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSW Premier Chris Minns said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThank you, Izzy, for showing courage and judgement beyond your years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYour bravery and quick thinking saved students and members of the public from a potential disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat makes your actions even more remarkable is you don\u2019t even have your L-plates yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am so pleased to be able to present you with this award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou are a deserving recipient of the first Premier\u2019s Award I have presented since coming to office.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NSW Premier Chris Minns has today awarded Casino High School student Izzy Miller a Premier\u2019s Award to honour her brave actions in preventing a bus crash last year. In November, a bus with around 20 local students aboard began moving after the bus driver had stepped out from the vehicle. Izzy quickly realised the danger … Continue reading “Casino teen\u2019s brave bus rescue recognised with Premier\u2019s Award”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25128,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions\/25128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}